Daf Yomi

Ketubot 26 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-08-01 Ezra penalized the levi'im and took away their right to maaser rishon. Two witnesses - do they have to testify at the same time?

Ketubot 25: Marc Chipkin: 2022-07-31 Further discussion whether doing birkat Kohanim is sufficient to be considered a Kohen. The status of terumah and challah nowadays. Elevating a person to the status of a Kohen based on incidents.

Ketubot 24 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-07-30 I am a Kohen and my friend is a Kohen. Are we concerned about collusion? Do we elevate a Kohen who eats terumah to the status of one who has good Kohanic yichus?

Ketubot 23 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-07-29 People sometimes get engaged and divorce privately. Shmuel’s daughters were taken captive. Testimony of one witness is believed with regard to a captive woman.

Ketubot 22 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-07-28 The source of the principle that, “the mouth that forbids is the mouth that permits”. A woman said: “I am married,” and then went back and said, “I am unmarried. The difference between contradictory testimony that a man died, or a woman was divorced.

Ketubot 21 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-07-27 Dealing with a case of where two people signed on a document and one of them died. A witness who signed a document and a judge who signed the certification can combine to authenticate it. If two of the three judges recognize the signatures on a document, how they can authenticate it.

Ketubot 20: Marc Chipkin: 2022-07-26 Different ways to authenticate the witnesses’ signatures. A witness using notes to remember testimony or being reminded by someone else. Remembering testimony after sixty years have passed.

Ketubot 19 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-07-25 Discussion about the status of various types of documents : document written on trust, paid-up loan documents, "passim" documents, documents written with prior notification of non-intent, documents with conditions attached.

Ketubot 18 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-06-24 Other cases that the Mishnah could have chosen. Why did the Torah say that one who admits to part of a claim must swear that the denial of the other part is true? If witnesses claimed the signatures are theirs but they were forced with a financial threat.

Ketubot 17 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-07-23 How do we dance before the bride? We nullify our learning to carry the dead out to burial, and to accompany a bride to the chuppah. Why did the mishna teach the case of buying a field from the father?